Therapy services for Washington state

I came to therapy first in the midst of an enormous amount of change in my life, in my vocation, identity, and relationships. My first experience of therapy was behavioral. The tools my therapist taught me were helpful, but years later I found myself mired in the same questions, struggling with the same issues because we had not actually addressed the root of the problems I was facing. We had attended only to the ways those issues were impacting my behavior.

My second journey through therapy was Jungian, and it was a very different experience. In some ways much slower, more patient. My therapist was happy to offer tools to help me cope in the moment, but he was not content to stop there. Instead he encouraged my curiosity about my own life, about how I became who I am and who I want to become. I found myself awed by the wisdom that came through my dreams, the way my life made so much sense when viewed through the lens of folk tales and cultural myths, and how teasing out symbol and meaning helped me make sense of my past, understand the why of my self-beliefs and behaviors, and foster lasting change and empowerment.

Therapy is not just about getting you back to being a productive worker, a juggle-everything super-Mom, the one "no one has to worry about." Therapy is about putting down the mask, opening the gates of our soul and getting curious with a trusted guide. Therapy is about allowing yourself to be seen, by your therapist and by your self, maybe for the first time ever.

For more information about therapy options for those in Washington state you can find my therapy practice here. You can find details about my work as a Jungian therapist here. Or for more information about EMDR and how it might help check it out here.